Network and information system play irreplaceable roles in hospital daily administration. The system is so huge that any fault during its operation will cause serious consequences to hospital administration and bring immeasurable loss to the hospital; therefore, to set up corresponding contingency plans becomes increasingly important. From the perspective of management, the article puts forward...

You are responsible for a large medical surgical ICU. Your hospital administration has been very focused on reducing rates of hospital-acquired infections particularly in the wake of increasing public attention. However, it is time for budget preparation and your financial officer is concerned about the escalating costs associated with patient isolation and barrier precautions/personal protecti...

OBJECTIVE To gain better understanding of the work-preparedness of new interns and identify areas where further training and education should be provided. DESIGN Surveys of new interns assessing self-reported confidence and preparedness for tasks commonly undertaken without direct supervision. The first survey was undertaken before the cohort had started work, the second once they had complet...

The management of acute myocardial infarction has undergone major changes in recent years. Good practice can now be based on sound evidence derived from well-conducted clinical trials. Because of this, the European Society of Cardiology decided that it was opportune to provide guidelines and appointed a Task Force to formulate these. It must be recognised, however, that many aspects of treatmen...

BACKGROUND The existing models of information technology in health sciences have full scope of betterment and extension. The high demand pressures, public expectations, advanced platforms all collectively contribute towards hospital environment, which has to be kept in kind while designing of advanced technological ecosystem for information technology. Moreover, for the smooth conduct and opera...

The aim of this article is to present the application of a strategic map for hospital management. The main hypothesis is, that strategic map for a hospital should differ from the classical one by Kaplan & Norton due to different priorities hospital work specificity as such. The main finding is that financial perspective is fundamental, basic for hospital activity. In hospital “X” strategic map,...